William F. Hammond

Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp (GELLMU) is the name
of my project that originated in 1998 with the aim of building a bridge
from traditional LaTeX to the new world of XML languages.

A local adaptation of “regular” GELLMU offers the most
reliable way to have automatic generation of article-level
documents from a single LaTeX-like source file to both (1) the modern form
of HTML extended by MathML for optimal, fully accessible, online content
and (2) Adobe's portable document format (PDF) for printing.

The range of my research interests falls within the territory spanned
by number theory and algebraic geometry.
More specifically, most of my investigations have involved modular
forms, the geometry of Hilbert modular surfaces, theta functions,
abelian varieties, and "reduction" of Schwartz-Bruhat functions.

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By the fall of 1992 I had become fascinated with the new ability,
thanks to the network, to have the library come to my office. In
particular, I could go looking around the world for articles about
mathematics and have them appear -- in full typeset glory -- on the
screen in my office. I have become greatly interested in
working to bring the library closer to my office and, indeed, my home.

The grand unification of computer algebra systems. Sage
will play a major role in my spring 2008 course Math 587, Modern
Computing for Mathematicians. There is much interesting reading in
the SAGE blog kept by William
Stein, the founder. For example see the comment “Why I
like Sage” by Jason Grout of Iowa State.

Jobs in Computer and Mathematical Sciences
to Grow Fastest of All Professions

A forecast for 2008 from the
MAA
said to originate with the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Software patents are basically patents on abstract concepts.
They pose a threat to academic freedom. Do not confuse software
patents with software copyrights (which usually are legitimate).
Check out the section entited Take Action at The GNU Project site. Are you sure
that your latest theorem does not encroach upon a patent?

Cygwin, originally from Cygnus Software, now part of
Redhat, purveyor of "Redhat Linux", can give a Windows user an
intermediate step toward broader functionality at no cost in that it
provides X11 (with mouse-capable remote login to Linux hosts),
gcc, bash, and most GNU tools under
Windows, as well as a Windows facility for building old friends
such as PARI/gp from source.